Plane/Sailing:
Bill of Materials
The full Bill of Materials for the Plane/Sailing project is as follows. I re-used a number of these components that were left over from previous projects, but I’ve included prices for everything (as of October 2020) for completeness.
If you’re recreating this project from scratch, I would recommend swapping my two Raspberry Pi Model B’s for a single Raspberry Pi 4, which should be able to cope with the combined workload. You’ll therefore only need one case, SD card, USB cable and Ethernet cable as well. This will reduce complexity, cost and space taken up by the project!
| Part | Purchase Link | Quantity | Cost (GBP)/ea | Cost (GBP) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond X-50 Antenna | Nevada Radio | 1 | 59.95 | 59.95 |
| Pimoroni ADS-B Antenna | Pimoroni | 1 | 24.90 | 24.90 |
| Pimoroni 8m N-type to SMA Cable | Pimoroni | 2 | 10.50 | 21.00 |
| FlightAware Pro Stick Plus | Pimoroni | 1 | 23.70 | 23.70 |
| RTL-SDR v3 Dongle | Technofix | 1 | 27.99 | 27.99 |
| Raspberry Pi Model B | Farnell | 2 | 22.65 | 45.30 |
| Short Crust case | Amazon | 2 | 7.99 | 15.98 |
| SD Card | Amazon | 2 | 3.78 | 7.56 |
| USB Cable | Amazon | 2 | 2.99 | 5.98 |
| Ethernet Cable | Amazon | 2 | 3.51 | 7.02 |
| USB Plug | Amazon | 1 | 8.99 | 8.99 |
| TOTAL | 248.37 |
Thanks for your interesting documents ! I’m interested to built a double system (ais and ads-b) by 2 rtl-sdr on one Raspberry Pi4; In this case can you help me to find the software and / or documents how to write in the Raspberry ? thanks in advance, Fabrizio from Italy In the web I find many many docs but only for one use.
Hi Fabrizio,
As I’m sure you’ve discovered, my build uses two different Raspberry Pis, both of which use pre-configured disk images, whereas you will need to do both from a single Pi. Out of the two, ADS-B is the most difficult to set up the software for, and also the best supported by pre-configured disk images such as PiAware.
Therefore I would recommend starting with a PiAware installation, and get that up and running first. Once you have that working, you can install rtl_ais and aisdispatcher (ARM glibc version). rtl_ais doesn’t come as a compiled binary, only as source, but there are some instructions here - scroll down to “4. RTL-AIS Software”.
If you get stuck let me know and I can probably help out. I can also give you the binary files for rtl_ais and aisdispatcher from my Pi which should hopefully still work on a Pi 4.